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News stories on TV and in newspapers are very often accompanied by pictures. Some people say that these pictures are more effective than words. What is your opinion about this.

#news #stories #tv #newspapers #pictures #people
In recent times,
people
 say that
pictures
 are more effective than
words
 on
T
.V. and in
n
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the
a
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ewspaper for news stories, as will now be discussed.
Pictures
 seem to be more believing to the public compared to
words
, as they are seeing it live. Most of the
people
 like
pictures
 because it turns out to be proof
for
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of
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 the incident.
People
 can be made aware through
words
 about
n
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the
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ews but
pictures
 tend to show the
person
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personality
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 of the incident.
For example
, the 26/11 attacks which took place in
mumbai
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Mumbai
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 showed Ajmal Kasab photo on
T
.V. and in the newspaper, through
this
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,
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the public was aware of how he looked and if seen in the neighbourhood, it could have been reported of his whereabouts.
Pictures
 not only show us about a person but
also
 a graph of the heavy rainfall in a particular city, which cannot be expressed by
words
 can tell us about the forecast.
Pictures
warns
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 us about a robber or a missing person.
On the other hand
,
words
 help us to express the
picture
. A
picture
 just
shwon
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shown
 on
T
.V. wouldn'
t
 be understood by most
people
 and would
further
 confuse them. A
picture
 would consume more space in a newspaper compared to
words
. To sum up,
Pictures
 and
words
 both are equally important as one cannot do without the other. Having said all that, I agree that
pictures
 can be more effective than
words
 because a
picture
 can express a thousand
words
.
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  • instantaneous comprehension
  • irrefutable evidence
  • transcend language barriers
  • overreliance
  • oversimplification
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